Release Message:  Alex (Keeley Hawes) does a deal with prisoner Thordy, allowing a successful storming of the jail though there is a surprise and a fatality.

Description:  Hunt heads a team sent in to quell a prison riot during which station officer Viv James is taken captive by scary lifer Jason Sacks. Sacks' cell-mate Paul Thordy escaped during the riot but is caught. He tells Alex he is Sam Tyler, though he was Sam's last arrest before he died. Ray and Chris pose as journalists going in to interview Sacks and are also taken prisoner by him. Alex does a deal with Thordy, allowing a successful storming of the jail though there is a surprise and a fatality. Jim Keats is useless throughout,his main concern being to get Alex to find out if Hunt killed Tyler. The disfigured man makes another appearance.